Family & Relationships audiobooks

How to Talk So Kids Can Learn - Abridged

By: Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

Narrated by: Lisa Nyberg & Rosalyn Anstine Templeton

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The leading experts on parent-child communication show parents and teachers how to motivate kids to learn and succeed in school.

Using the unique communication strategies, down-to-earth dialogues, and delightful cartoons that are the hallmark of their multimillion-copy bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele... Read more

The New Approach to Medicine

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Our modern medical system, based on high technology tests and treatments, is beginning to topple under its own weight and expense. But there is another approach to medicine that is less expensive and often more effective, especially for chronic conditions. Read more

Finding Love - Abridged

By: Barbara Deangelis

Narrated by: Dr. Barbara Deangelis

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Are you tired of getting into relationships that don't work? If so, then this inspirational audio program is what you've been waiting for. It will provide you with concrete tips for attracting love into your life, point out the best and worst reasons to get into a relationship, remind you of all the ways you can take care of yourself while... Read more

You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy? - Abridged

By: Kate Kelly

Narrated by: Kate Kelly & Peggy Ramundo

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The first self-help audio program by ADD adults for ADD adults!

Attention Deficit Disorder, the most common learning and behavioral problem among children, also affects millions of adult Americans, more of which are being diagnosed with this potentially disabling condition every day.

Now Kate Kelly, a clinical psychiatric nurse, and Peggy Ramundo,... Read more

Family Relationships

By: Marianne Williamson

Narrated by: Marianne Williamson

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of Marianne Williamson audio programs comprises her popular lectures on family relationships. The included titles are: "Not Judging Your Mother/Expectations"; "Criticism/Truth Cannot Be Made a Lie (Incest)"; "Undoing Terrorism/Rebirth Transformation"; and "The Living Temple". Read more

Memories of Madison County - Abridged

By: Jana St. James

Narrated by: Jana St. James

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1992, a novel by university professor Robert James Waller was published to less than glowing reviews. Despite the critical reception, The Bridges of Madison County became a publishing phenomenon, spending two years on the New York Times bestseller list and selling more than 50 million copies. Decades before, Waller had met 18-year-old Jana... Read more

The Book of Virtues Volume II - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: Joseph Bennett, John Bennett & Elayne Glover Be...

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The second audio volume of William Bennett's Book of Virtues, an inspiring anthology that helps children understand and develop moral character—and helps parents teach it to them.

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our... Read more

Raising a Son - Abridged

By: Don Elium & Jeanne Elium

Narrated by: Don Elium

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Boys pose special challenges as they struggle to define themselves and find their place in the world. In this sensible and straightforward guide, Don and Jeanne Elium explain boy-specific basics as they relate precisely to both mother and father. This guide answers your questions about male aggression, hostility, and violence, as well as... Read more

Dialogue With Sir Laurens Van der Post: A Mythic Journey, Part 1

By: Laurens Van der Post

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The experiences of Sir Laurens Van der Post, including time in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and a sojourn in the Kalahari desert after World War II, give him a broad perspective. He shares with us the mythic origins of Hitler and Nazism, and why the end of “the age of leaders” is relevant today. Read more

The Book of Virtues - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: William J. Bennett, Elayne Glover Bennett, Char...

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of The Moral Compass and The Death of Outrage, William J. Bennett's bestselling The Book of Virtues is an inspiring anthology that helps children understand and develop moral character—and helps parents teach it to them.

Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits... Read more

Exploring Life Before Birth

By: Troye Turner & John Richard Turner

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Growing evidence indicates that parents' experiences during pregnancy significantly affect the mental and physical condition of the child throughout life. Here is an approach that considers the effects of parental and even past lives, to lend insight and healing power to our current life situations. Read more

Self-Esteem and Well-Being

By: Nathaniel Branden

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A pioneer in improving self-esteem, Nathaniel Branden speaks from a quarter-century of experience in both theory and practice. Taking us far beyond shallow or selfish interpretations, he shows how self-esteem is a crucial tool for dealing with personal, family and societal problems. Read more

Writing From the Belly

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Isabel Allende talks about her passion for writing. She speaks with great depth of feeling about the death of her daughter Paula. She says, "Every book is triggered by a very strong emotion that has been with me for a long time, and usually that emotion is painful. However, the process of writing is so joyful." Read more

Evolution, Intelligence and the Future

By: Joseph Chilton Pearce

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The awesome potential of the human brain can only be tapped by providing the best possible learning environment at the earliest possible age. Scientific research has shown that television damages the full neural development of children's brains, crippling their capacity for symbol and metaphor. Other factors also contribute to antisocial... Read more

Guided Meditations To Support Successful Relationships

By: Belleruth Naparstek

Narrated by: Belleruth Naparstek

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This audio set features four different, state-of-the-art exercises of guided meditation for relationships, all designed to strengthen and renew the bonds of love and maintain vitality and vibrancy in your feelings and interaction. Each hypnotic, immersive track of this powerful guided imagery for relationships offers a different mind-body... Read more

Obsessive Love - Abridged

By: Dr. Susan Forward & Craig Buck

Narrated by: Dr. Susan Forward

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Millions of otherwise rational and mature men and women are driven to self-defeating, out-of-control behavior by intense, unfulfilled desire. Millions of others— targets of such obsessions— find their lives turned upside down by unwanted attention, harassment, and attempts at coercion. Acclaimed therapist Dr. Susan... Read more

That's Not What I Meant - Abridged

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You know the feeling: You thought you said exactly what you wanted to, but somehow a different message comes across. You end up feeling misunderstood...and the relationship that you're building -- at home, on the job, on a date, or in an interview -- slips a little further out of your control.
Talk is the key to any relationship and... Read more

You Just Don't Understand - Abridged

By: Deborah Tannen

Narrated by: Deborah Tannen

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deborah Tannen's #1 bestseller revolutionized the way men and women talk -- and listen -- to each other -- at home, at work, and wherever the communication gap between the sexes can lead to troublesome misunderstandings. The problem dates back to childhood, when boys and girls learn to use language in distinctly different ways; years later,... Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled: Mythology and Human Nature - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Further Along the Road Less Traveled: the Taste for Mystery - Abridged

By: M. Scott Peck

Narrated by: M. Scott Peck

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

The Heart of Healing

By: Stephen Levine

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Out of his extraordinary work with those who came to him to die, Levine has emerged with a vision of healing capable of opening the heart and mind as well as the body. He speaks of the "real healing" as "the one we took birth for." We're all born in this realm to become complete. Read more

Winning Ways

By: Wayne Dyer

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Full of high energy and zest for life, psychologist and best selling author Dyer suggests a myriad of methods to become more conscious parents and live life more fully. Read more

Birth Reborn

By: Michele Odent

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

How babies are born could be the single most important circumstance effecting humanity and life on the planet. In the tradition of Frederick Leboyer, pioneer of “Birth Without Violence,” Michele Odent, another French physician, has developed an entirely new approach to birth which has virtually eliminated the need for Caesarean Section and... Read more

Life Before Birth

By: Thomas Verny

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before they’re born, children are thinking, feeling, moving - experiencing. What happens to them in utero may profoundly shape the people they become. In recent years much work has been done to demonstrate the importance of the “prenatal self” and the birth experience. Thomas Verny, psychiatrist, founder of the Center for Psychotherapy and... Read more